VMware Server and ESX - server specs

[John Abreau]

I'm looking to buy a 1U or 2U server to run VMware on. My initial goals
are to migrate a recently retired NT4 finance server into a guest OS,
and to install a Scalix groupware server in another. 

I also want to be able to build several additional production servers
within it, as well as use it for test servers whenever I need one. 

I guess the biggest questions initially concern CPUs and hard drives.
VMware's web site suggests that 4 guest servers per CPU should work
reasonably without serious performance issues; how accurate is that
claim? Can I count on a decent number of guest systems with two
dual-core Xeon CPUs, or do I really need four?

 If I use SATA hard drives instead of SCSI, how will that affect
performance? 

Clearly I'll want gigabit ethernet, not just 100baseT. 


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